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Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies? I understand there's a market opporunity, but so many of these "copy cat" products fail to
by terryjsmith 17y ago
Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies? I understand there's a market opporunity, but so many of these "copy cat" products fail to live up to their potential simply because they are side projects (especially something like this to Google). It seems this is quite a trend for Palm, MS, Google and other megacorps and it rarely turns out well.
- blhack 17y ago>Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies? Yes, it's called "letting other companies subsidize your market research". I don't know that the copy cats are really failing to live up to anything. I'd say that android is a glowing success. Not only that, but if google builds and android-based tablet, it might force apple to de-suckify the iPad. Competition is good for everybody including the companies that are competing; it incubates innovation.
- mbrubeck 17y ago"It seems this is quite a trend for Palm, MS, Google and other megacorps and it rarely turns out well." Windows, Google web search, Office, XBox, Google Maps, GMail, and many other big successful products started out in markets that were initially defined and led by competitors.
- theBobMcCormick 17y agoBeing a "copycat" seemed to work well for Apple with the original iPod, which was a long way from the first handheld MP3 player.